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Including open space, 42 houses on 10.6 acres is over 4 times as dense as the surrounding neighborhoods. This is not a denser version of the surrounding neighborhoods, but something completely unrelated to the surrounding neighborhoods. As mentioned in previous letters, at 42 houses, this development would be completely incompatible with the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan . On page 22 the Specific Plan calls for the "more accessible, flatter portions of the Specific Plan Area, north of the existing Vineyard Avenue" be developed as "individual neighborhoods with a design character compatible with the 'vineyard village' concept described later in the Plan" with "single-family homes on 10,000-square foot minimum-sized lots." The plan also has minimum lot dimensions and building setbacks on page 25. With such high density and barely any open space, PUSD's latest proposal is not even close to complying with the 'vineyard village' concept and minimum lot requirements. On page 118 under "Specific Plan Compliance" the Specific Plan says "no subdivision ... shall be constructed within the Plan Area which is not in substantial conformance with the Specific Plan". So the Neal Property is not exempt from having to substantially conform with the concepts in the plan. So it’s important that the City rejects this request from PUSD. Point #4: Enforce Lower Square Footage than Adjacent Less-Dense Neighborhoods Given how houses are priced mainly on square footage, we think the best mechanism to ensure that Neal is more affordable than the adjacent neighborhoods is to make the houses smaller (to go along with the smaller lots). With the 40% Floor to Area ratio in the Objective Design Standards and average lots of 10k square feet, Neal could end up on average with 4,000 square foot houses. For reference, the 4 house models at the adjacent Reserve at Pleasanton neighborhood are at 3,822sf (Cabernet), 3,850sf (Merlot), 3,909sf (Riesling), 4,160sf (Syrah), (although some sites do have ADUs that raise the square footage). We’re concerned that having houses the same sizes as most of ours on much smaller lots could lower the resale value of our homes in the adjacent neighborhoods without providing anything meaningfully more affordable to the new residents. We ask the City Council to adopt a lower Floor to Area ratio for Neal that’s more inline with the surrounding neighborhoods and matches the semi-rural nature of the Vineyard Corridor. Point #5: Neighborhood Park next to Old Vineyard Trail In the January 9th letter (attached) PUSD proposed using some of the open space in the Neal property for a park. We are generally supportive of the idea, although with some different details. June 1, 2023 4